Street or station indicator.



W. E. SMITH.

$TREET 0R STATION INDICATOR.

APPLIGATION FILED APILfi, 1911.

1,068,179, I Patented July 22,1913.

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W. H. SMITH.

$TREET OR STATION INDICATOR.

AIPLIOATION FILED APR. 5, 1911.

1,068,179. Patented Ju1y22, 1913.

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WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

STREET OR STATION INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented July 22, 1913.

Application filed April 5, 1911. Serial No. 619,078.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, lVILniAM HENRY SMITH,citizen of the United. States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county ofAlleghcny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Street or Station ludiaators, of which thefollowing is a specification This invention relates to improvements instreet or station indicators and has for its object to provide a simpleinexpensive indicator to be used on street and railway ears.

lVith the above and other objects in view, I have invented the indicatorillustrated in the accom fianying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view taken on line A--r1 of Fig. 2, andFig. 2 is a side elevation of the plates.

Referring to the accompanying drawings 1 is a casing having its upperpart enlarged to accommodate the operating mechanism for rotating thetwo sets of spools 3 and iwhich carry the belts 5 on which the names ofthe streets or stations are printed. Openings (3 are provided in thefront and rear walls 7 and 7' for exposing the station signs as thebelts are moved.

Partitiims 7) and c are located within the casing 1 and openings thereinand in the side wall 8 of the casing form bearings for the spool andother shafts which support the operating mechanism. Mounted in openingsin the wall 8 and in the partitions Z) and 0 are shafts 9 and 10, 1 1and 15. Mounted on these shafts are the spools 3 and i which carry thebelts 5. Flanges 11 and 12 on the spools keep the belts in a straightline.

Pivotally mounted on the shaft 16 is a lever member 17 which is providedwith an angularly disposed end 18. To the upper vertical part of themember 17 is pivotally connected a member 19 which is provided with apin 20 (shown dotted). A curved arm 21 has fastened to its extreme end,one end of a spiral spring 22, the other end of which is fixed to thecasing 0 by means of which said member 19 is normally held in a loweredposition. Secured to the extreme end of the angular arm 18 is a bell 23which is adapted to be rung by a tapper E24; pivoted to the member 18and the lower end 25 of which engages the cogs 26 on the wheel 27. Onthe member 19 is pivoted a dog 28 which engages the cogs 26 and is heldin engagement therewith by the spring On the shafts 9 and 1d are pinions30 and 31 either one of which may be engaged by the gear wheel. 27 whichis pivotally mounted on the shaft 32 which is fixed to the upper part ofthe lever member 17. In the lower end. of the member is rotatablymounted a cam wheel 33 having a square post 34L which projects throughthe partition 1) and is operable by means of the key 35. As the keythrows the lever from side to side the gear wheel is shifted from one tothe other of the pinions 30 and 31 for rotating the shafts 9.01" 14 fromone to another direction and which through the means of the belts 5rotate the shafts 10 or 15 as the case may be. Fixed to the pinions 30or 31 are gears 36 and 37 which mesh with one another so that as thebelts 5 are rolled upon one spool they are unrolled. from the otherspool. Gear wheels 38 and 39 are mounted on the shafts 10 and 15 andmesh with one another so that when one shaftrotates all of the spoolhearing shafts rotate.

On the shaft 40, one end of which is mounted in the slot 41 which may beshifted on the shaft, is fixed a gear wheel 1-2 to which is fixed oneend of a clock spring L3, the other end of which is fixed to the pintleiel, this gear wheel a2 meshes with a pinion 4-5 fixed to the gear 3!).When the bolts 5 are being wound 011 the upper spools, the pinion 45rotates the gear 42 causing the spring to wind up and when the belts areunwound from the upper spools the tension of the spring causes therotation of the gears d2, which rotates the gear 39 through the pinions4-5, which rotates the gear 38 thus winding the belts upon the lowerspools. This spring is very strong and its action upon the gears causesthe belts to be held stretched at all times.

A cord. 46 passes over the pulley 17, under the guide rollers 18 and 4:9and over the double pulley 50 and is secured to the pin 20 on the member19. A weighted. handle 51 is secured to the end thereof. On the otherside of the device a cord 52 passes over the pulley through an openingin the side wall 7, around the pulley 5a and over the double pulley 50and is secured to the pin 20. WVhen either of these cords is drawn themember 19 is drawn toward the wall 7, the dog 28 thereon rotating thegear, wheel 27, which in turn rotates the gear 36 or 37 through themedium of the ,pinion 30 or 31 as the case may be.

Thespaceover which the member 19 may travel is regulated by the stopscrews 55 and I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent Incombination a station indicator comprising a casing, two upper and twolower intergeared reels, belts each engaging an upper and a lower reel,a pinion carried by each uppeimreel, a pinion carried by one lower reel,a shifting gear adapted to alternatively engage with said upper pinions,means for rotating said shifting gear and a springwactuated-'geararranged to engage said lower pinion to rotate the same.

In testimony whereof I affix my signa+ ture in presence of twowitnesses.

VILLIAM HENRY SMITH.

Witnesses R. :S. SIEGFRID, Tnos. A. MGINERNEY.

Copiesof thispatent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

